18.06.2015
Shocking Report from Medical Insiders
A
shocking admission by the editor of the world’s most respected medical
journal, The Lancet, has been virtually ignored by the mainstream media.
Dr. Richard Horton, Editor-in-chief of the Lancet recently published a
statement declaring that a shocking amount of published research is
unreliable at best, if not completely false, as in, fraudulent.
Horton declared, “Much of the scientific
literature, perhaps half, may simply be untrue. Afflicted by studies
with small sample sizes, tiny effects, invalid exploratory analyses, and
flagrant conflicts of interest, together with an obsession for pursuing
fashionable trends of dubious importance, science has taken a turn
towards darkness.”
To state the point in other words,
Horton states bluntly that major pharmaceutical companies falsify or
manipulate tests on the health, safety and effectiveness of their
various drugs by taking samples too small to be statistically meaningful
or hiring test labs or scientists where the lab or scientist has
blatant conflicts of interest such as pleasing the drug company to get
further grants. At least half of all such tests are worthless or worse
he claims. As the drugs have a major effect on the health of millions of
consumers, the manipulation amounts to criminal dereliction and
malfeasance.
The drug industry-sponsored studies
Horton refers to develop commercial drugs or vaccines to supposedly help
people, used to train medical staff, to educate medical students and
more.
Horton wrote his shocking comments after
attending a symposium on the reproducibility and reliability of
biomedical research at the Wellcome Trust in London. He noted the
confidentiality or “Chatham House” rules where attendees are forbidden
to name names: “’A lot of what is published is incorrect.’ I’m not
allowed to say who made this remark because we were asked to observe
Chatham House rules. We were also asked not to take photographs of slides.”
Other voices
Dr. Marcia Angell is a physician and was
longtime Editor-in-Chief of the New England Medical Journal (NEMJ),
considered to be another one of the most prestigious peer-reviewed
medical journals in the world. Angell stated,
“It is simply no longer possible to
believe much of the clinical research that is published, or to rely on
the judgment of trusted physicians or authoritative medical guidelines. I
take no pleasure in this conclusion, which I reached slowly and
reluctantly over my two decades as an editor of the New England Journal
of Medicine.”
Harvey Marcovitch, who has studied and
written about the corruption of medical tests and publication in medical
journals, writes, “studies showing positive outcomes for a drug or
device under consideration are more likely to be published than
‘negative’ studies; editors are partly to blame for this but so are
commercial sponsors, whose methodologically well-conducted studies with
unfavorable results tended not to see the light of day…”
At the University of British Columbia’s
Neural Dynamics Research Group in the Department of Ophthalmology and
Visual Sciences, Dr Lucija Tomljenovic obtained documents that showed
that, “vaccine manufacturers, pharmaceutical companies, and health
authorities have known about multiple dangers associated with vaccines
but chose to withhold them from the public. This is scientific fraud,
and their complicity suggests that this practice continues to this day.”
Lancet’s Dr. Horton concludes, “Those
who have the power to act seem to think somebody else should act first.
And every positive action (eg, funding well-powered replications) has a
counter-argument (science will become less creative). The good news is
that science is beginning to take some of its worst failings very
seriously. The bad news is that nobody is ready to take the first step
to clean up the system.
Corruption of the medical industry
worldwide is a huge issue, perhaps more dangerous than the threat of all
wars combined. Do we have such hypnosis and blind faith in our doctors
simply because of their white coats that we believe they are infallible?
And, in turn, do they have such blind faith in the medical journals
recommending a given new wonder medicine or vaccine that they rush to
give the drugs or vaccines without considering these deeper issues?
F. William Engdahl is
strategic risk consultant and lecturer, he holds a degree in politics
from Princeton University and is a best-selling author on oil and
geopolitics, exclusively for the online magazine “New Eastern Outlook”.
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